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Ann Coulter: A Liberal Defense of the Conservative Pundit
By Geoffrey Taylor
Ann Coulter has described herself quite precisely as a polemicist. Polemics is intended only to establish the truth of a point of view, while refuting the opposing point of view. That makes me an apologist, in the Classic Greek sense of mounting a systematic defense of liberalism using facts and information to argue with. Early Christian writers also called themselves apologists, but sometimes they wrote polemics, too.
Our only political common ground is that we both like lemonade on a hot day, the music of the Grateful Dead, and the crazy (oops) humor of Dave Barry. Very deliberately, Ann Coulter has twice insulted a group with which I self-identify: 'Tards who are also liberals. ("Tard" is the correct form of the slur, except in the deep rural South.) It encompasses many so-called disorders of the mind, but it's common on schoolyards everywhere, sad to say. Ann is again correct, sort of. Liberals ask, why not leave it in the schoolyard? Anyone? Beuhler?
The dog I have in this fight is my lifelong Asperger's Syndrome. As a mental disability, I highly recommend it. It has been useful to my writing, gifting me two national awards in a field I know little about. Once, I made $500 on a whimsical lottery ticket just by trusting my bankable intuition. Although I was totally socially retarded in my class, the most popular dude later became Oregon's most infamous serial killer.
As I knew he would; I also have Cassandra's Syndrome, the agony of foreknowledge caused by the impotence to change anything. (Ann Coulter could be a poster child for that one. Just ask her about the election.)
Hers could be a legitimate disability, worthy of our pity. You've heard of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder? Maybe it's medical, and she can't help herself when the whim arises to call the twice-elected President of the United States of America a "retard," and for good measure, use the same word on a whole room of SRO liberals.
Some would claim that she doesn't know the difference between right and wrong, but still they hold her responsible for using insensitive words, not to mention attacking views they happen to hold. Many words are in poor taste, whatever that means. In 1865, pianos had legs but women had "limbs;" in 1952, the dirtiest epithet was "Red." Some words are currently taboo, fully off-limits to most right-thinking people; not Ann. She thinks slightly to the right of that arch-criminal, Spirochete Agnew, lacking only his gift of Tourette's Alliteration. Him I can hate, and death does not exempt him from it. He wasn't even funny.
My many friends who believe in the Democratic Party have both asked me, How can I stand that rhymes-with-castle-witch, given the horrible things she says, believes and supports? Our only political common ground is that we both like lemonade on a hot day, the music of the Grateful Dead, and the crazy (oops) humor of Dave Barry. I disagree sometimes with every jarring, harsh syllable — as is my right – but I admire her courage and willingness to MAKE us examine the impact of words. Especially now.
"Well, then, you must be a retard." Verbatim, what was said by Dems when I tried to explain my complicated, ambivalent feelings about Ann Coulter. She entertains me. Yes, she uses hot labels that seem rude to the easily offended. No, she has not yet outdone Lenny Bruce or George Carlin, my personal heroes and saints in Word Heaven. These liberal gentlemen made America stop and think about the impact of innocuous-looking character strings.
So while I abjure the use of profanity for emphasis, I really effing like Ann Coulter. Her presence in this angry political environment sustains my faith in the dialog. Stipulated, Rush Limbaugh is surely hempy (old word for "hang-worthy") and should be penciled in for a sudden visit from the Angel of Death, to quote the immortal Carlin. Sununu would be palatable if cannibals ate him. Akin should be, no pun intended; I suggest the strapado.
But for my inchoate world to make sense, such as it does, Ann Coulter needs to be in it, profitably ranting invective against retarded liberals like me. Like a pitiless otter, she joyfully charges the sticky whitewater of gnar liberal outrage. They loathe her, and thereby make her rich. Their rage keeps her famous.
Who opened a discussion about the mentally and physically alter-abled, a nearly voiceless group that will now be heard from, beginning with John Franklin Stephen's open letter of kind but invincible rebuttal? How does a 30-year-old man with Down's syndrome reach the hearts of a national audience with his impeccable, gentle words? Very hard to do, unless someone starts by throwing a word in our faces. That was no liberal, it was Ann Coulter. God bless her loose lips, I say.
To my putative mind, Ann Coulter is much like Andy Kaufman, a complex and brilliant comedian. Maybe I'm just dumber than a wooden Native American, and as bereft of common sense as a victim of Polish ancestry, but I marvel at her syntax. Dozens of cruel shibboleths smoke out the too-easily offended. (If we liberals have one weakness, that's it; Achilles' heel is not just a body part.)
What's left of my analytical left-brain just won't cope with some questions: Does she have any limits? Is there any word she won't employ? Has she no decency, not even one scintilla of empathy for the feelings of others? Is she utterly and hopelessly out of her ever-loving, effing mind? Does she truly imagine these are moot playground words on the monkey bars of modern media? No, yes, yes, maybe, no, no! cries my heart.
She's not so much the enemy of evolving feminism as a warm wind fanning the ember into a flame. You'd have to be clinically stupid not to notice the paradox and self-refutation, when she says America would be a better country if women couldn't vote. Sirhan Sirhan said Robert Kennedy would grant him parole if RFK was still alive. Get it?
Ann Coulter feeds on tumult and uproar, sipping the anguish her words cause liberals, who rise to the bait: "No, that's a fascist lie! Wait, she can't use that word! What has she got, Tourette's Virus?!?"
Then she laughs all the way to the NYT bestseller list by defending the indefensible, using verbal judo to hip-throw challengers: Are you sure Canada didn't sent troops to Vietnam? Sure they did. No? I'll get back to you. Leaving doubt, you see, and not giving an inch. Oddly enough, she was almost correct in an oblique sense; it depends on your definition of the word "send." The U.S. sent a lot of drafted troops to Canada.
"If Ann Coulter is a Christian, I'm a Martian." Heard that one before. The connection with the divine is very mysterious and personal. Let's not probe into the numinous views of Ann Coulter, soul-at-large; it's none of our holy business. The proper study of Ann is, after all, Ann.
For better or worse, I recognize a kindred spirit in Ann Coulter. And now, like a cherry atop the sundae of election-year politics, almost a parody of sweet Marilyn: "You're a ree-tard, Mr. President …" How I love it when Ann talks dirty.


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Nuevo Tomasiri est un village péruvien de la région de Tacna dans la province de Tacna et dans le district d'Inclan.

Notes

Ville au Pérou

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Q: Adding child nodes to treeView I'm currently trying to write cataloging program. For now, my goal is to make "Add" button work as I want. My code:
private void populatingTreeView()
{
   SqlCeCommand query = new SqlCeCommand("SELECT * FROM cars ORDER BY model", con);
   SqlCeDataReader dr = query.ExecuteReader();

   while (dr.Read())
   {
       TreeNode[] brandNode = treeView1.Nodes.Find(dr["brand"].ToString(), false);
       if (!brandNode.Any())
       {
          brandNode = new TreeNode[]
          {
             treeView1.Nodes.Add(dr["brand"].ToString(),dr["brand"].ToString())
          };
          platformNode[0].Nodes.Add(dr["brand"].ToString(), dr["model"].ToString());
       }
          else
          {
             platformNode[0].Nodes.Add(dr["brand"].ToString(), dr["model"].ToString());
          }
   }
}

It works. Almost. At the begginging my treeView looks like this

Then, after pressing "Add" button, every child node duplicates itself, except reciently added (E90 on this picture)

I sholud modify somehow my method, I get it. But after restarting the program everything is getting back to normal

My "Add" button method
private void button1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
 SqlCeCommand com = new SqlCeCommand("INSERT INTO cars(model,brand) VALUES (@model,@brand)", con);
  com.Parameters.AddWithValue("@model", textBox1.Text);
  com.Parameters.Add("@brand", comboBox3.Text);

  try
     {
        int affectedRows = com.ExecuteNonQuery();

        if (affectedRows == 0)
        {
            MessageBox.Show("Please, fill all the fields!");
        }
    }
    catch (Exception ex)
    {
        MessageBox.Show(ex.Message);
    }
}

A: You need to clear the tree before re-adding the nodes, which is what you are really doing:
treeView1.Nodes.Clear();

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Certain Songs #2046: The Rolling Stones – "Blood Red Wine"
February 28, 2021 by Jim Connelly
Album: The Missing Years
In June of 1994, we drove to Las Vegas for Sherilyn's 21st birthday. For most people that particular June weekend lives on in memory because it started with the O.J Simpson Bronco chase and subsequent arrest. And while I remember watching bits and pieces of it, especially at the restaurant where we had dinner, I remember that weekend because it was when I bought my most favorite Rolling Stones bootleg, The Missing Years.
I don't remember how I found out, but that Saturday, there was a huge record swap — at oh I dunno, let's say the Las Vegas Convention Center — which meant that there were bootlegs!
And so instead of playing blackjack Saturday afternoon, I went to the record swap and bought not just The Missing Years, but a disc of Van Morrison's legendary 1971 Pacific High Studios performance, and Roma, a recording of one of the final shows from the recently deceased Kurt Cobain. Quite a haul!
But The Missing Years was the star, as it featured performance from across their career, some of which — "Claudine," "Brown Sugar" with Eric Clapton — have subsequently been released, and some, like their take on Dobie Gray's "Drift Away" and two versions of the notorious "Cocksucker Blues."
And "Blood Red Wine," which it claimed was an Exile on Main St. outttake, but clearly was from the Beggars Banquet sessions, given the acoustic guitar and drum sound. Despite the fact that it was obviously unfinished, "Blood Red Wine" packs both a musical and emotional wallop.
I don't think there's any electric guitar on "Blood Red Wine," which, of course, doesn't make it all that different from most of the other songs from the Beggars Banquet sessions, but what it does have is a sense of dynamism that reminds me of a song like "Sister Morphine."
And so, it starts with with Keith playing some lovely sad guitar, like he's trying to find the right chords — which he may very well be — and eventually, he finds an even sadder lick, over which Mick comes in.
Dear, I love you dearly
But don't forget trouble I
I used to find
And it was in your mind
There is not a chance in hell that these would have been the final lyrics had they continued to develop the song, but it doesn't even matter Keith strums slightly harder, Nicky Hopkins comes in with the piano, and Charlie rumbles his toms.
I got red blood, and I got blood red wine
Which I bring you, when the snow is heavy on the ground
If you say where go I'll just, wrap my cloak around
It just struck me today that "Blood Red Wine" is quite possibly a lyrical precursor to future Certain Song "Winter" — recorded only four years but a million decades later — which also has a line about Mick wrapping his coat around someone. In the case of "Blood Red Wine," it's probably Marianne Faithfull who inspired the next verse.
You say that every man you ever had
Has been obsessed with you and I, want to prove an exception
To the rule, that you lay down
Babe, please don't make me cry, because there's a little pain inside
Yes my darling now you can't expect me always to hide
It's so tentative, his phrasing is so weird and off and real and sad and he's totally making it up on the spot and I love it all so much, especially when they follow it up with another chorus filled with Nicky's overmodulated piano and Charlies refusal to play anything but his toms. Obviously, the nth-generation bootleg sound has something to do with the whole feel of the track, but also, the melody line of that chorus is as sad and pretty, it just makes the fumbling stumbling verses that much more real.
Yeah, that's right
You see that every time well the lines must rhyme
And every verse, be in the same old time
Does it all, have to rhyme?
But there go, and that's a place that you will never
You said to remind me of the girl I used to know, and used to love, yeah
At this point, Charlie finally finds his snare drum, and plays a beat during the final chorus, which has gotten even grander and bigger.
Which I bring you, when the snow lies heavy on the ground
If, you get cold I wrap my, coat, coat around
My, my, my, my don't you stay, on that, that snowy ground
And yeah, it doesn't even matter that Mick is rhyming "ground" with "ground," not now, not with the snow covering everything everywhere forever. Which is how it feels as Charlie makes footprints with his snare drum until it just ends.
It's too bad they never finished it, because it's a pretty great song, and in an alternate universe, we coulda had a Beggars Banquet configured like this:
1. Sympathy For The Devil
2. No Expectations
3. Dear Doctor
4. Jumpin' Jack Flash
5. Jigsaw Puzzle
1. Street Fighting Man
2. Blood Red Wine
3. Stray Cat Blues
4. Factory Girl
5. Salt of The Earth
Those of us who are Rolling Stones crazies know two things 1) that there is a shit ton of stuff in the vault we'd love to hear cleaned up and 2) good luck with that. There was Metamorphosis in 1975, and nothing until the Exile on Main Street reissue in 2010, which — outside of "Plundered My Soul," was underwhelming. Same goes for the Sticky Fingers reissue in 2015. The only time they ever nailed it was with the bonus disc of the 2011 Some Girls reissue — too bad the remastered album itself sounded like shite.
It's all because, even pushing 80, Mick Jagger only ever looks in one direction: forward. He doesn't care if we want to hear the outtakes, which is admirable in its own way, of course, if frustrating.
"Blood Red Wine"
Filed Under: Certain Songs Tagged With: Blood Red Wine, Rolling Stones, The Missing Years
Certain Songs #2534: Suede – "Metal Mickey"

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package main

import (
	"bufio"
	"errors"
	"os/exec"
	"strings"

	"github.com/mendersoftware/log"
)

type BootVars map[string]string

type BootEnvReadWriter interface {
	ReadEnv(...string) (BootVars, error)
	WriteEnv(BootVars) error
}

type uBootEnv struct {
	Commander
}

func NewEnvironment(cmd Commander) *uBootEnv {
	env := uBootEnv{cmd}
	return &env
}

func (e *uBootEnv) ReadEnv(names ...string) (BootVars, error) {
	getEnvCmd := e.Command("fw_printenv", names...)
	return getOrSetEnvironmentVariable(getEnvCmd)
}

func (e *uBootEnv) WriteEnv(vars BootVars) error {
	//TODO: try to make this atomic later
	for k, v := range vars {
		setEnvCmd := e.Command("fw_setenv", k, v)
		if _, err := getOrSetEnvironmentVariable(setEnvCmd); err != nil {
			log.Error("Error setting U-Boot variable: ", err)
			return err
		}
	}
	return nil
}

func getOrSetEnvironmentVariable(cmd *exec.Cmd) (BootVars, error) {
	cmdReader, err := cmd.StdoutPipe()

	if err != nil {
		log.Errorln("Error creating StdoutPipe: ", err)
		return nil, err
	}

	scanner := bufio.NewScanner(cmdReader)

	err = cmd.Start()
	if err != nil {
		return nil, err
	}

	var env_variables = make(BootVars)

	for scanner.Scan() {
		log.Debug("Have U-Boot variable: ", scanner.Text())
		splited_line := strings.Split(scanner.Text(), "=")

		//we are having empty line (usually at the end of output)
		if scanner.Text() == "" {
			continue
		}

		//we have some malformed data or Warning/Error
		if len(splited_line) != 2 {
			log.Error("U-Boot variable malformed or error occured")
			return nil, errors.New("Invalid U-Boot variable or error: " + scanner.Text())
		}

		env_variables[splited_line[0]] = splited_line[1]
	}

	err = cmd.Wait()
	if err != nil {
		return nil, err
	}

	if len(env_variables) > 0 {
		log.Debug("List of U-Boot variables:", env_variables)
	}

	return env_variables, err
}

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D.O. (a.k.a. Defy the Odds; real name Duane Gibson) is a Canadian rapper, motivational speaker and author.  He is known for setting the Guinness World Record for the longest freestyle rap in 2003.

Biography
D.O. studied at Toronto's York University and graduated with an honours English degree in 2001.

After graduation, he created a school tour program, Stay Driven, to educate students on anti-bullying, anti-violence, peer pressure, leadership and working at peak performance. He has subsequently visited hundreds of schools to speak on those topics and in 2012 published a book Stay Driven: Can't Nobody Hold You Down on the same topics.

In 2007, D.O. released his debut album "The Norhtstarr" the album garnered a nomination from the Ontario Independent Music Awards. In 2009, D.O's sophomore album "Stay Driven" hit number 7 on the Canadian College Charts. In 2012, he released his third solo album "Heavy In The Game" which included the single "Can't Tell Me" featuring SonReal, Famous and Chris Jackson.  The track peaked at Number 3 on the US College Hip Hop Charts in July 2012.

D.O. records as a solo artist and is also one-half of the duo Art of Fresh with beatmaker and vocalist Byram Joseph, aka Slakah the Beatchild. In 2009  their debut album "Back to the Earth" reached #2 on the National College Radio Charts. In 2010, the group's song "Out This World" hit number 1 on the US College Hip-Hop Radio Charts. Other musicians that he has collaborated with include DL Incognito, Red 1 of the Rascalz, Classified, Marco Polo, Metty the Dert Merchant (Sweatshop Union), JRDN, Maestro Fresh Wes and others. He videos rotate on MuchMusic, he has toured Canada multiple times and performed globally with stops in Tokyo, Hong Kong, London, New York City, Miami and Las Vegas.

Guinness World Record
On July 5, 2003, D.O. set a Guinness World Record for the longest freestyle rap at the Dark Nights Nationals car show, an outdoor car festival in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. His rap lasted for 8 hours and 45 minutes and was performed in front of hundreds of spectators. He was the first rapper to have a video-documented evidence to support the claims to have done the world's longest be freestyle rap.

Discography

Solo artist
 The Northstarr (2007)
 Stay Driven (2009)
 Heavy In The Game (2012)
 Down Home (2014)
 Duane Gibson (2015)
 On This Grind (2016)
 Seeds and Dominoes (2017)

With Art of Fresh
 Back to Earth (2008)
 When the night comes in (2010)

Personal life
D.O.  currently lives in Toronto, Ontario.

References

External links
 Official site
 Stay Driven website

Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Black Canadian musicians
Canadian male rappers
21st-century Canadian rappers
Rappers from Toronto
21st-century Canadian male musicians


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Microsoft Scores in Race to Provide Internet-Based Personal Health Info
by Bradley Rose, Senior Designer | October 10, 2007
HealthVault provides a
new revolutionary way
to collect, store, and
share your health
information with web
sites and doctors.
Leave it to Microsoft to raise the ante in the high stakes game of providing free personal health records on the internet.
Microsoft's system, called HealthVault, was recently announced in Washington with much fanfare and after several years' development. The company's track record has attracted some high profile partners to HealthVault's debut including New York Presbyterian Hospital, the Mayo Clinic, the American Heart Association, LifeScan, Johnson & Johnson and MedStar Health.
In a nutshell, an individual's health information is stored in an encrypted database with the consumer determining what information goes there and who gets to see it. Microsoft's theory is that hospitals and doctors will post all information about a patient-history, prescriptions, for example--which then becomes available to other healthcare providers over the internet. Such a system would be particularly helpful for patients who fall ill traveling, move to a new area or obviously in emergency situations.
A number of others have been pursuing similar storage systems including Google, Cisco and Dossia, a joint venture led by Intel. But Microsoft, as is their wont, has enlisted true heavyweight partners and is raising the bar.
More Industry Headlines
Quarter of U.S. hospitals facing 'critical staffing shortage' amidst pandemic
Del Medical releases new X-ray system
Johnson & Johnson taps Microsoft Cloud for digital surgical platform
EHR vendor QRS sued over breach to patient portal server


April, 2019 - Most people have never played any of the Stud poker games in anything but the fixed limit format. Pot limit 7 Card Stud is a difficult concept to wrap your head around at first. PL Stud is only available at one poker room at the moment but the real money traffic has been growing quite a bit recently so perhaps other rooms will add it soon. Gr88 Poker offers PL 7 Card Stud, PL Stud HL, PL Razz and PL 5 Card Stud. Pot limit Stud receives about the same amount of real money traffic as the fixed limit version. This article will help you transition from fixed limit Stud to PL Stud. You had better be careful though. PL Seven Card Stud can be very addicting. It combines the fast paced action of PL Omaha with the huge profit potential inherent in all of the Stud poker games.
Pot limit 7 Card Stud is the most popular of the PL Stud poker variants at Carbon Poker. The PL Stud action at Carbon Poker is available at stakes ranging from $.01/$.02 to $2/4. All of the PL Stud tables have a set cap on how much any player can bet during a single hand. For instance, the $2/$4 PL Stud table with a $25 cap. The most you can wager in a single hand is $25. Let's take a look at some PL 7 card Stud strategies. A successful PL Stud strategy will include a lot of bluffing, especially before 4th Street. Stealing blinds is an important strategy in pot limit 7 Card Stud. You should play solid starting hands very aggressively.
The real money PL Stud action at Carbon Poker usually consists of several micro and small stakes tables. It is important that you make an adjustment to the tables stakes you play at. If you usually play $1/2 FL Stud, you will need to play at the $.10/$.25 PL Stud tables. Pot limit games have much higher average pots compared to FL games. You will need to adjust your bankroll management to compensate for this. For PL Stud you should have around 150X the big blind amount. So a $.25/$.50 PL Stud table would require a $75 buyin, although the minimum buy-in amount is $30.
PL Stud HL is not as popular at Carbon Poker as PL Stud but there is usually a couple active real money tables. PL Stud 8 strategies are pretty much the same as the PL Stud tactics listed above. The only notable difference is that you will likely play many more hands so bluffing and semi-bluffing comes into play even more. Starting hands like 2-5-6 should be played very aggressively, especially if there are more than two players at the table. When you catch a strong high hand, like trips, you should try and get as much as you can out of the other players if it looks like they are all going for the low hand. Don't scare them out of the hand but you don't want to slow play in PL Stud HL.
Playing Razz poker in the pot limit format is going to be very weird. Out of the three major Stud poker games Razz has the slowest pace. Razz poker hands reach 4th Street around 25% less than Stud hands. This means that stealing blinds is even more important in PL Razz than it is for the other card games. You should bluff very often when you play PL Razz but always make sure you know when to fold. If they are still calling your bluff on 5th Street it may be time to slow things down.


Today, I have a fabulous card to share with you, using Chi Chi Memories, Freddie Love Daddy digital set.
I am really digging this new line by Jillibean Soup: Dutch Mustard.
I used this sketch from The Paper Players, to help me bring this card together.
Don't forget that Chi Chi Memories still has an open Sketch Challenge going on and there is still plenty of time to join.....So come on over and join the fun and win some digi's.
Have a fantastic and safe weekend.
The image is so cute and I love the paper with hearts. Thank you for joining us over at Do You Stack Up.
This is adorable - love the little swirls of bling you used. And that elephant image is so sweet!
Oooh, I just love elephants and this pair is adorable! Love how the bling swirls go with the sketch--very clever! Thanks for joining us at the Paper Players!
Absolutely adorable! The cute paper coordinates so well with the stamped image! Thanks for playing with The Paper Players!
Awesome card Calypso! Love that adorable image and the papers are perfect! Thanks for joining us at the Paper Players.
Adorable! The coloring is just a perfect match to that beautiful paper. Thanks for joining us at The Paper Players this week.
So glad you've been chosen for the Sentimental Sundays DT & looking forward to working with you.
Oh my gosh! Your card is so adorable!


sito.synergy.gridcosm: "...Christ will come at 10:00"
optimize your output right? lol.
whats going on in synchs.
refereance to an actual value.
find an event significant, just assuming an even potentiality in an unbiased source, where clearly the probability of categorization depends soley on the number of categories itself.
comonalities? Quality? What exactly is the currency?
these assumptions have to be fair enough because the hypothetical natural is similar to an unobserved quantum state.
a synch is a synch?
to suspected intentioanl data, right?
suggesting that good and bad are equally probably?
its the same old thing. are there more even or odd numbers?
perhaps we on start with something measurable first!?!
synchronicity their are particulare criteria.
so why not. say the total possible number of positions = 1/6000you could do 1/5000. you could measure by the second. just get on with it.
having as little contridictory events or errors as well.
significant and most have to be good and mostly not bad.
is DISQUALIFIED by a personal or standard confirmation bias.
hypothetical natural when its detemined by the PCB/SCB? again you might as well be looking into the probabilities of the bias itself.
still seems synchronized if not intentional to the observer.
it synchs or it doesnt, and whos to say? especially in a hypotheticall unobsereved environment. thats why yhe assumtion of equality in the unbiased natural is a fair baseline for comparison before you can begin to evenspeculate as to weather synch events are naturally common, engineered, or are the byproduct or recidual sideeffect of metered or intervalaic systems.
exctly because it cant be dependant on anything else.
sig = (pos + neg) for the same reason.
to compare to other probability models.
How often can a person count or notice a synch event anyway?
if a song says "
minute how much is that?
whats the average number of words in a song got to do with it?
and what does the potentiality of a singular postition have to do with the potentiality of the whole field? surely a a song with the name of the character in the movie has a higher chance of at least that corelarry right?
What if we are lineing up beads instead?
In otherwords we have concluded that the odds of everything in a sync being right = to the odds of nothing happening at all? perhaps not.
perhaps its expontentially imrprobaly based on the number of errors consecutivly avoided.
so theres a song playing to a movie.
is the same. it hapens over and over in a good synch.
if the hypnat pos and neg are assumed to be the same rate then we can count a neg for each pos we count!
Our avg song has 400 half second conmparible events.
or 100 obs. 2 second events.
probability for n relative to p.
what are the odds of 25P0N if p and n are = probable??
point is you get an exponentially unlikely (less than 1 percent) probability after about 10 or 20 positive corelarries with no negating errors if you use the probabilities of the hypothetical natural.
it dwarfs the 1/5000 "
gotta be ateast one good place to play this song to this flic) probability in terms of rareness.


Future additions in terms of the Happy will include a chain or belt-drive from one of the wheels (as used in Brazil) to power a water filtration pump and a small down-hill activated alternator doubling as brake and battery charger.
Double axle wagons to be pulled by two horses or four donkeys will be furbished with printable PVC canopies to display income generating advertising. Each wagon would be able to transport up to 10 adults; or 15 children or 3 disabled persons in their wheelchairs and their wheelchair minders. A solar and water filtration system and cellular pay-phone will be standard equipment – with a downhill-activated alternator an optional extra. The rear seats will be duel purpose to serve as a ramp, similar to the multifunctional four-seater "HAPPY".
Please Note: All visuals are mock-ups for presentation purposes ONLY.


Wilder is a small community about an hour from Boise that is home to a large migrant community.
Many of these seasonal migrant workers and their families experience real poverty with very little assistance. For nearly a decade we've partnered with the community to support teachers, students, and families through community dinners, coat and food drives, an annual Summer-time VBS, and the delivery of Christmas boxes to every student in the town!
We are always looking for great volunteers to help us in Wilder. If you have any questions just let me know.
Thank You for your interest in our Wilder outreach. We got your message and will be in touch.
If you would like more information about our Wilder Outreach, please contact Karissa.


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Георг Клайн () е немски писател, автор на романи и разкази.

Биография
Георг Клайн е роден на 29 март 1953 г. в Аугсбург. След като полата матура и отбива военната си служба, следва германистика, история и социология в университетите на Аугсбург и Мюнхен.

През 1984 г. излизат първите му разкази в немски литературни списания. Първата му книга, криминалният роман "Либидиси" (Libidissi) (1998), е обявена за една от най-добрите немскоезична творба за годината и през 1999 г. е отличена с наградата "Братя Грим".

През 1999 г. излиза и сборникът му с разкази "Призоваване на сляпата риба" (Anrufung des Blinden Fisches). През 2000 г. Клайн е удостоен с наградата "Ингеборг Бахман".

През следващите години писателят публикува още няколко романа и сборници с разкази. За "Роман на нашето детство" (Roman unserer Kindheit) получава през 2010 г. "Наградата на Лайпцигския панаир на книгата" в категория "Белетристика".

Георг Клайн е член на немския ПЕН-клуб

Живее с жена си, също писателка, и двамата им синове в селището Бунде в Източна Фризия, провинция Долна Саксония.

Библиография
 Libidissi, Roman, 1998
 Anrufung des blinden Fisches, Erzählungen, 1999
 Barbar Rosa. Eine Detektivgeschichte, 2001
 Von den Deutschen, Erzählungen, 2002
 Die Sonne scheint uns, Roman, 2004
 Sünde Güte Blitz, Roman, 2007
 Schlimme schlimme Medien, 2007
 Nacht mit dem Schandwerker, In: Johannes Ullmaier (Hrsg.): Schicht! Arbeitsreportagen für die Endzeit, 2007
 Roman unserer Kindheit, Roman, 2010
 Die Logik der Süße, Erzählungen, 2010
 Schund & Segen 77 Abverlangte Texte, 2013
 Die Zukunft des Mars, Roman, 2013
 Miakro, Roman, 2018

Награди и отличия
 1999: "Награда Братя Грим"
 2000: "Награда Ингеборг Бахман"
 2010: "Награда на Лайпцигския панаир на книгата" (Kategorie: Belletristik)
 2012: Niedersächsischer Staatspreis
 2018: Arno-Schmidt-Stipendium

Източници

Външни препратки

  Биографични данни за Георг Клайн в Каталога на Немската национална библиотека
  Литература от и за Георг Клайн в Каталога на Немската национална библиотека
  Литература от и за Георг Клайн в Немската дигитална библиотека
  Георг Клайн в Literaturportal Bayern
  Георг Клайн в Literatur Port
  Георг Клайн в Perlentaucher
  Георг Клайн в Bachmannpreis 2000
  Георг Клайн в Die LYRIKwelt
  Георг Клайн в Personensuche

Носители на наградата "Ингеборг Бахман"
Носители на литературни награди на Германия
Носители на литературни награди на Австрия
Германски автори на криминални романи
Германски автори на разкази
Родени в Бавария


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PLEASE NOTE: This document applies to the HEAD of the source tree

If you are using a released version of Kubernetes, you should
refer to the docs that go with that version.

The latest 1.0.x release of this document can be found
[here](http://releases.k8s.io/release-1.0/docs/proposals/compute-resource-metrics-api.md).

Documentation for other releases can be found at
[releases.k8s.io](http://releases.k8s.io).

--

# Kubernetes compute resource metrics API

## Goals

Provide resource usage metrics on pods and nodes on the API server to be used
by the scheduler to improve job placement, utilization, etc. and by end users
to understand the resource utilization of their jobs. Horizontal and vertical
auto-scaling are also near-term uses.

## Current state

Right now, the Kubelet exports container metrics via an API endpoint. This
information is not gathered nor served by the Kubernetes API server.

## Use cases

The first user will be kubectl. The resource usage data can be shown to the
user via a periodically refreshing interface similar to `top` on Unix-like
systems. This info could let users assign resource limits more efficiently.

```
$ kubectl top kubernetes-minion-abcd
POD                        CPU         MEM
monitoring-heapster-abcde  0.12 cores  302 MB
kube-ui-v1-nd7in           0.07 cores  130 MB
```

A second user will be the scheduler. To assign pods to nodes efficiently, the
scheduler needs to know the current free resources on each node.

## Proposed endpoints

	/api/v1/namespaces/myns/podMetrics/mypod
	/api/v1/nodeMetrics/myNode

The derived metrics include the mean, max and a few percentiles of the list of
values.

We are not adding new methods to pods and nodes, e.g.
`/api/v1/namespaces/myns/pods/mypod/metrics`, for a number of reasons. For
example, having a separate endpoint allows fetching all the pod metrics in a
single request. The rate of change of the data is also too high to include in
the pod resource.

In the future, if any uses cases are found that would benefit from RC,
namespace or service aggregation, metrics at those levels could also be
exposed taking advantage of the fact that Heapster already does aggregation
and metrics for them.

Initially, this proposal included raw metrics alongside the derived metrics.
After revising the use cases, it was clear that raw metrics could be left out
of this proposal. They can be dealt with in a separate proposal, exposing them
in the Kubelet API via proper versioned endpoints for Heapster to poll
periodically.

This also means that the amount of data pushed by each Kubelet to the API
server will be much smaller.

## Data gathering

We will use a push based system. Each kubelet will periodically - every 10s -
POST its derived metrics to the API server. Then, any users of the metrics can
register as watchers to receive the new metrics when they are available.

Users of the metrics may also periodically poll the API server instead of
registering as a watcher, having in mind that new data may only be available
every 10 seconds. If any user requires metrics that are either more specific
(e.g. last 1s) or updated more often, they should use the metrics pipeline via
Heapster.

The API server will not hold any of this data directly. For our initial
purposes, it will hold the most recent metrics obtained from each node in
etcd. Then, when polled for metrics, the API server would only serve said most
recent data per node.

Benchmarks will be run with etcd to see if it can keep up with the frequent
writes of data. If it turns out that etcd doesn't scale well enough, we will
have to switch to a different storage system.

If a pod gets deleted, the API server will get rid of any metrics it may
currently be holding for it.

The clients watching the metrics data may cache it for longer periods of time.
The clearest example would be Heapster.

In the future, we might want to store the metrics differently:

* via heapster - Since heapster keeps data for a period of time, we could
  redirect requests to the API server to heapster instead of using etcd. This
  would also allow serving metrics other than the latest ones.

An edge case that this proposal doesn't take into account is kubelets being
restarted. If any of them are, with a simple implementation they would lose
historical data and thus take hours to gather enough information to provide
relevant metrics again. We might want to use persistent storage directly or in
the future to improve that situation.

More information on kubelet checkpoints can be read on
[#489](https://issues.k8s.io/489).

## Data structure

```Go
type DerivedPodMetrics struct {
	TypeMeta
	ObjectMeta // should have pod name
	// the key is the container name
	Containers []struct {
		ContainerReference *Container
		Metrics            MetricsWindows
	}
}

type DerivedNodeMetrics struct {
	TypeMeta
	ObjectMeta // should have node name
	NodeMetrics      MetricsWindows
	SystemContainers []struct {
		ContainerReference *Container
		Metrics            MetricsWindows
	}
}

// Last overlapping 10s, 1m, 1h and 1d as a start
// Updated every 10s, so the 10s window is sequential and the rest are
// rolling.
type MetricsWindows map[time.Duration]DerivedMetrics

type DerivedMetrics struct {
	// End time of all the time windows in Metrics
	EndTime util.Time `json:"endtime"`

	Mean       ResourceUsage `json:"mean"`
	Max        ResourceUsage `json:"max"`
	NinetyFive ResourceUsage `json:"95th"`
}

type ResourceUsage map[resource.Type]resource.Quantity
```

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Can there an objective answer to this question? In modern times, a child's father is determined by a biological paternity test but the results can be dismissed by the legal adoption process. In the Mahabharata, however, marriage was most important in determining paternity. That is why Pandu is identified as the father of the five Pandavas even though he did not make either of his wives pregnant.
The story of Vikramaditya and Vetal draws attention to the fact that in the world not every question has an obvious objective answer. Many questions demand subjective answers – a call. And the man who makes the call is the leader. He is Vikramaditya.
Ruchika is a Vikramaditya. She runs a chain of boutique stores selling high fashion. She has an immediate task at hand: to select a model who will appear in hoardings and print ads over the next six months. The budget is huge and before her is a complete SWOT analysis including the cost of the top models, the market perception of each of the models, their current brand equity, and future trends. Ruchika knows that in selecting the model, she will effectively be selecting the brand image of her stores. Does she want to continue with the image that exists? Does she want to change it? What will be the consequences of this creative decision? Will it change the quality of footfalls to the shops? Will she get the teenage crowd or the family crowd? Her choice of model will influence many things. She turns to her finance team who give her the financial implications of her business decision – the optimistic and the pessimistic picture. There is no consensus in her design or sales team. For some the cool new model matters, others prefer the classical, and then there are those who want to be radical.
For all that talk about taking a decision as a team, Ruchika knows that ultimately she will have to take a call. If only she had the luxury of not saying anything. But then Ruchika realizes, she has not been made the head of the organization to keep quiet. She is the leader. She must use her intelligence and her intuition and arrive at a decision, howsoever subjective it may be, a decision that will affect the future of her company, her employees, her customers, her balance sheet and ultimately her own career. She must think, she must decide, she must speak. And her decision will not please everyone. They will oppose her, criticize her, pull her down when her decision does not yield the desired outcomes. She will have no one to blame, no one to hide behind. The buck stops with her. That is the price of kingship. That is the curse of Vikramaditya.
Vikramaditya always gives an answer but in different versions of the tale, the answer is different. Sometimes, valuing social institutions as the key to social order, he chooses the legal husband, the weaver. Sometimes, giving due cognizance to caste hierarchy, he declares the priest as the father. And sometimes, valuing the role of emotions, he convinces himself and the Vetal that the warrior who raised the king is the true father. There is no right answer. There is no wrong answer. Everything depends on Vikramaditya's values – what according to him is right, what according to him is wrong. Values determines the nature of Vikramaditya's judgments and hence the quality of his kingdom.
If Vikramaditya believes that his judgment is objective, then he is only deluding himself. All decisions are molded by frameworks and contexts – all frameworks are constructed and all contexts are interpreted through the subjective lens. Data helps but to a point, not beyond. That is why we cannot have an organization without kings. Ujjain is a prosperous city because Vikramaditya takes the right calls, or rather he takes calls that he feels are right and which turn out to be beneficial eventually. That is why Vikramaditya is a great king. Every king can take a call – but only a great king can take calls that consistently yield the desired outcomes.
Right or wrong, Vikramaditya has to speak, and let the Vetal go, and start the process all over again. The day Vikramaditya has no answer, the fantasy of the sorcerer who will turn the Vetal into a a super-slave will take over and the reality of the brilliant king and his fabulous decision making abilities will come to an end.


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"We haven't given it any thought yet whether we'll also add Swedish 'knäckebröd' to our selection of cookies," adds Frans Van Tilborg with a smile.
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IMAP advised the buyer throughout the acquisition process.


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Often overlooked, yet arguably the heart and soul of Chinatown is the "Chinese Community Cultural Center" at 616 H Street. Active in many ways, the organization is reaching out to those with an immigrant story to tell. In the program's debut this past Sunday, the center hosted Dr. John Jung.
Dr. Jung was born in Macon, Georgia in 1937. His parents, who emigrated from China in the early 20s, owned and operated a downtown laundry business. Jung left for the west coast in the 50's and went on to earn a PhD in Psychology at Northwestern University. He taught at Cal State University for 40 years. After retiring, Jung wrote the four books and traveled around the country to share his experiences.
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We purchased two of his books. I read and enjoyed "Southern Fried Rice." It is a readable, first-hand account of his life growing up in Macon, with a chapter on the family's move to San Francisco in the 50s (Wonder if he became a Giants fan?). Research, footnotes, and photos enhance his story.
As someone born and raised in the South, I read with fascination and interest. One poignant example of the mixing of the cultures is a literal one. Jung relates how his mother improvised when she made stir-fry. Not having the usual ingredients available to them, she bought and used collard greens, okra and turnips.
Another issue the Jung family faced was identity. In 1943, Madame Chiang Kai-shek, the First Lady of China, visited Macon as part of her effort to raise political support and economic aid for her husband's government, the Republic of China. The parade honoring the popular and powerful empress, who had ties to the area, proceeded past "Sam Lee Laundry," the Jung's place. Seizing on the opportunity, the tour's publicist had arranged for Jung and his three siblings to cheerlead, so to speak. The press release talked up the moment, but Jung provides a deeper meaning.
"This incident shows that no matter how 'American' we children may have felt or wanted to be, in the eyes of others, we would always be seen as 'Chinese," even if we hardly knew the culture of China or its language."
The Jungs and Chinese-Americans faced challenges large and small. One of the biggest obstacles to their prosperity was the "Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882," a Draconian law that prohibited the immigration of Chinese people until 1943. (Even then, the numbers were very low).
Almost 100 years since Jung's parents arrived in the United States, immigration remains a controversial topic. However, no matter what you put in your frying pan, or what your accent is, his story is worth knowing. America is a country that appreciates good citizenship, hard work and overcoming obstacles. The Jung family certainly did that.


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Many travelers in Spain take advantage of the high-speed trains throughout Spain. Here you will find essential vocabulary related to train stations. We provide authentic audio files to assist you with the learning process.
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These women quit their jobs to disrupt the multi-billion dollar tampon industry — here's why
Natalie Walters, Jacquelyn Smith Mar. 5, 2016, 2:40 PM
Alex Friedman (left) and Jordana Kier started LOLA to offer tampons that are 100% cotton and can be delivered to your front door. LOLA
"Mum, Dad, I'm quitting my job to start a tampon company."
That's exactly what Alex Friedman and Jordana Kier told their parents when they decided to team up two years ago to cofound LOLA.
At first, the two women just wanted to solve one problem with tampons: the fact that "we never seem to have them when we really need them," Friedman tells Business Insider.
They wanted to launch a company that would mail women tampons once a month to make their lives a little bit easier.
But Friedman and Kier tell Business Insider that when they started doing their research, they learned that the FDA doesn't require companies to list all the ingredients in tampons, and they were "shocked." Upon digging a little further, they found that most of the big brands use synthetic materials — usually a blend of the artificial fibres rayon and polyester, among others — in their tampons.
Business Insider reached out to Tampax, Kotex, and Playtex. Kotex and Tampax say the absorbent material of their tampons are a cotton and rayon blend, while Playtex uses a cotton fibre rather than cotton. All three companies say
the percentages of each material is proprietary information or not available, and their products meet FDA standards.
Given that the average American woman is estimated to use more than 16,000 tampons in her lifetime, according to the National Center for Health Research — and that "no research has been conducted on the long-term effects of artificial fibres in tampons" — Friedman and Kier decided to start a company that would also tackle the ingredient problem by offering women a more natural option.
Before launching LOLA, Friedman and Kier conducted about a dozen focus groups with women across the country and asked each group about feminine care, and what they know (or don't know) about the products they are currently using.
Participants mostly complained about never having enough tampons in the house, and said they don't know what's in the tampons they're using.
Once the focus groups confirmed what Friedman and Kier thought were the two biggest problems with this centuries-old product, they officially got LOLA going.
In July 2015, the women launched their company, which makes biodegradable tampons made of 100% cotton and delivers its products to your front door in recyclable boxes once or twice a month ($10 for one box; $18 for two boxes), depending on the subscription package you choose.
Friedman and Kier say disrupting the massive tampon market — which is projected to reach $6.2 billion in sales by 2020 and is currently dominated by brands that have been around for hundreds of years — is no easy feat.
"It feels like women have been waiting for a brand like LOLA for a long time but didn't know it because they had never talked about it before," Friedman tells Business Insider.
Currently, the company — which received $1.2 million in seed money last summer (part of which came from supermodel Karlie Kloss) and an additional $3 million earlier this week — is made up of just four employees: Friedman, Kier, and two interns. But they plan to expand soon.
One of the biggest challenges right now is getting women to switch over from the brands they know and trust.
Luckily, they say, their friends, family, and early customers, like Kloss, are very supportive of and passionate about LOLA — and they're spreading the word.
Friedman and Kier have already sold millions of tampons since launching the company eight months ago — but to continue growing, they say they will need to up their social media game, connect with lifestyle bloggers, establish B2B relationships, and develop brand partnerships. They're also encouraging customers to "recruit" their friends by offering a "give $5, get $5" referral program.
"We know a lot of women care about what's best for their bodies — that's why so many demand to know what's in their food and shampoo. But, not surprisingly, they don't really talk about tampons," says Friedman. "So a big part of our mission to start those conversations."
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"I see nothing as it is now."
This idea obviously follows from the two preceding ones. But while you may be able to accept it intellectually, it is unlikely that it will mean anything to you as yet. However, understanding is not necessary at this point. In fact, the recognition that you do not understand is a prerequisite for undoing your false ideas. These exercises are concerned with practice, not with understanding. You do not need to practice what you really understand. It would indeed be circular to aim at understanding, and assume that you have it already.
It is difficult for the untrained mind to believe that what seems to be pictured before it is not there. This idea can be quite disturbing, and may meet with active resistance in any number of forms. Yet that does not preclude applying it. No more than that is required for these or any other exercises. Each little step will clear a little of the darkness away, and understanding will finally come to lighten every corner of the mind which has been cleared of the debris that darkens it.
These exercises, for which three or four practice periods are sufficient, involve looking about you and applying the idea for the day to whatever you see, remembering the need for its indiscriminate application, and the essential rule of excluding nothing. It is emphasized again that while complete inclusion should not be attempted, specific exclusion must be avoided. Be sure you are honest in making this distinction. You may be tempted to obscure it.
"I do not see this typewriter as it is now."
"I do not see this key as it is now."
"I do not see this telephone as it is now."
Begin with things that are nearest you, and then extend the range:
"I do not see that coat rack as it is now."
"I do not see that face as it is now."
"I do not see that door as it is now."


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Maine is one of my most favorite places on earth and you have described its many charms so appropriately. You must visit Mt. Desert island for hiking and biking the miles of splendid carriage roads or climb to the top of Cadillac Mountain in the early morning to watch the sunrise.
Are there any publishers/editors reading this right now? Because James, you really should write a book. American men need you! (and frankly, so do the women). I think young men are really confused on how to dress for the office, life, and yes, the possibly that could throw at you a "three hour tour". How to be well groomed, and not look stodgy. Still be young. You could do this! You could help America! No longer will American men stand out (but not in a good way) amongst the Milanese, or English, and other such snappy dressers abroad or here in the US. It's would be a revolution!
And then later…a book on how men and their apartments/homes!
James, I concur with Mr Hampton and La Comtesse Lola, you are very good at getting down the whole idea of a life lived in a luxurious and self affirming way! This post was quite amusing, the idea of you getting lost on "Bear Island" is kind of funny. After being on Capri and Ischia, it would be so ironic! I love your look here! Do you know Leta Foster? She has a place in Mt Desert that was a Roosevelt cottage, she is a decorator in Palm Beach. Check out her blog called Decorating With Sheets.
Maine is such a beautiful state. I've been traveling there for vacations since 1989; my friends and I were fashion design students at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn at the time and one's father owned a big estate up there. It was so fun getting away from the city whenever we could; I fell madly in love with Maine and have remained so ever since.
It is so amazing to hear all the reactions to my Maine posts!
It seems to be that quite universally people just adore this magical place.
I adore you and ALL your wonderful comments and fantastic feedback.
Yes- I am on board with ALL your incredible ideas!


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Journal of Christian Nursing 30(4):p 253-255, October/December 2013. | DOI: 10.1097/CNJ.0b013e3182a700a1
Prayer in Practice, CAM, Call the Midwife
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PRAYER IN CLINICAL PRACTICE
TESTING PRAYER
Science and Healing
By Candy Gunther Brown
384 pp., Cambridge, MA: Harvard University, 2012, $29.95, hardcover.
Review: The contemporary jury about whether prayer can cure physical disease was in, then out, and now, with Testing Prayer by Candy Gunther Brown, the jury may be back again from deliberating on this fascinating topic. That is, 20 years ago Dr. Larry Dossey published a large review of scientific and anecdotal medical evidence indicating that prayer can cure disease. This interest in prayer in the medical community flourished during the next dozen years with multiple studies, including randomized clinical trials costing millions of dollars that were designed to test the efficacy of intercessory prayer (IP). The outcome of these endeavors was summarized in a 2009 Cochrane Review, which concluded that the evidence was "equivocal and, although some of the results of individual studies suggest a positive effect of intercessory prayer, the majority do not and the evidence does not support a recommendation either in favor or against the use of intercessory prayer" (Roberts, Ahmed, Hall, & Davison, 2009, p. 2).
Although such reviews have suggested no further resources be allocated to study the ability of IP to cure disease, Brown has revisited this controversial area for scientific study. In "Testing Prayer," Brown (an Associate Professor of Religious Studies at Indiana University, Bloomington) offers the verdict of "no, but" (p. 20) to the question of whether science can prove (or better, fail to disprove) the efficacy of prayer.
The Introduction and Chapter 2 are a necessary read, as they review not only the findings of previous empirical studies about prayer but also their sociopolitical context. Brown identifies what have been the scientific limitations of this research and begins to recognize the theological limitations of it as well. She explains how such study must be informed not only by good science but also good theology. These two disciplines of science and religion, which have historically challenged each other, should learn from each other.
Chapter 1 tells the story of the Toronto Blessing, a charismatic revival experience involving spiritual healing associated with prayer that has subsequently gone global. Observing this phenomenon started Brown's research program on prayer—"proximal intercessory prayer" (PIP; rather than distant IP, often the subject of previous research). Other chapters describe the author's mostly qualitative research investigating physical healing after PIP from charismatic–Pentecostal Christian healers in South America and Africa.
Brown ends with a discussion that integrates her findings in a tentative theoretical model about the healing effects of prayer. More specifically, this theory proposes that God's love works directly or indirectly (through healers) to effect healing. While God's love tapped through PIP may effect physical healing sometimes, sometimes it effects no scientifically measurable outcomes. What may be more important is the experience of divine love expressed in the act of praying. Given Brown's in-depth and well-researched analysis, it is easy to agree with her that continued research in this area—if guided by more comprehensive theory and more suitable methods—will be beneficial—Elizabeth Johnston Taylor, PhD, RN, Associate Professor, School of Nursing, Loma Linda University, Loma Linda, CA.
Roberts, L., Ahmed, I., Hall, S., & Davison, A. (2009). Intercessory prayer for the alleviation of ill health. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, (2), CD000368. doi:10.1002/14651858.CD000368.pub3
INVESTIGATING PRAYER
Impact on Health and Quality of Life
By Ian N. Oliver
157 pp., New York, NY: Springer, 2013, $129.00, hardcover.
Review:Investigating Prayer is an exhaustive overview of prayer research from around the world, coupled with a report of a large randomized blinded study of intercessory prayer in patients with cancer in Australia. Oliver, a physician, researcher, and head of Cancer Council Australia, notes that in the West, healthcare was within the domain of religion until the time of the Enlightenment and states this book explores the interface of science and religion, attempting to bring the two together. Oliver thoroughly explores prayer from multiple theological and scientific perspectives and tackles hard issues like the ethics of trying to measure God and praying or not praying for patients, as well as quantifying something metaphysical like prayer for the purpose of science. After a thorough discussion and review of prayer, Oliver attempts to address all of the previous criticisms of prayer research in this Australian study. Why do such a study of prayer? Oliver writes, "Prayer is probably the most common intervention for illness outside of physical medicine" (p. 95).
Oliver's study enrolled a diverse group of 999 cancer patients to assess the impact of Christian remote intercessory prayer on spiritual well-being. The study was triple blinded, meaning the patients, researchers, and intercessors were all blinded and no one knew who was being prayed for or not prayed for. Spiritual well-being was assessed using the Functional Assessment of Chronic Illness—Spiritual Well-being—12-item scale at baseline and 6 months. The intervention group showed greater improvements over time in spiritual well-being and its components of peace, faith, and emotional and functional well-being than the control group. The improvements were small but statistically significant and believed to have an impact on patients' quality of life.
Oliver's exhaustive review of prayer and scientific literature, both positive and negative, make this book a treasure chest for anyone interested in prayer as well as spirituality. The topics covered include the role of spirituality in illness, prayer as complementary or alternative therapy, the relationship between spiritual well-being and quality of life, instruments for assessing religious and spiritual belief, and possible directions for further research. A unique issue Oliver tackles is the impact of the study on the team who conducted the trial, from the ethics committee chair to one of the principal investigators who was an atheist. Investigating Prayer is easy-to-read and contains a wealth of information for clinicians and researchers on all sides of the prayer debate. I highly recommend the book.—KSS
SPIRITUALITY RESEARCH
SPIRITUALITY AND HEALTH RESEARCH
Methods, Measurement, Statistics, and Resources
By Harold G. Koenig
466 pp., West Conshohocken, PA: Templeton, 2011, $49.95, paperback.
Review: Harold G. Koenig, physician, researcher, teacher, prolific author, frequently sought after speaker, and former RN, is an international authority on spirituality in the context of health and illness. Koenig's career researching spirituality and religion has spanned three decades. Presently, Koenig teaches medicine and psychiatry at Duke University and directs the Duke Center for Spirituality, Theology, and Health. I can think of few others who could offer the authoritative discussion about researching spirituality and health that Spirituality and Health Research provides.
The contents of this volume were originally developed for summer workshops on researching spirituality that Koenig has organized for the past 8 years for novice and advanced researchers from many disciplines. Thus, this extremely instructive book is intended for anyone wanting to empirically study spirituality or religion from a health perspective. As I read, I find helpful instruction and perspective even though I have dedicated some time myself to researching spirituality. I can also see that a graduate student without any experience would be able to easily comprehend and apply the contents of this resource.
In 21 easy-to-read chapters, the reader is guided through discussions about existent literature and significance of studying religion and spirituality, and to how to disseminate such research findings. Part 1 presents an overview of the research in this field with a discussion of its strengths, weaknesses, and challenges; Koenig then proposes a research agenda. Part 2 discusses methods and design issues, from identifying an appropriate research question and variables, to sampling, and considerations of qualitative and quantitative designs (i.e., observational and clinical trials). Part 3 fleshes out measurement problems, including what variable/s to measure. (Koenig prefers the cleaner variable of religion to that of spirituality.) Part 4 explores various means for statistical analysis, including the important need to recognize confounders, explanatory variables, and moderators. Part 5 discusses how to publish findings and suggestions for obtaining funding.
Accompanying the text is a glossary of research lingo, something very helpful for the young researcher. I enjoyed the use of callouts on nearly every page; these callouts put in bold relief the salient points of the book. Without reservation, I urge any nurse wanting to conduct research on spirituality and health to read this repository of information and insight.—Elizabeth Johnston Taylor, PhD, RN, Associate Professor, School of Nursing, Loma Linda University, Loma Linda, CA.
COMPLEMENTARY ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE
The Christian Handbook, Updated & Expanded
By Dónal O'Mathúna and Walter Larimore
512 pp., Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2009 ePub, paperback, $22.99, ePub, $6.64.
Review: Alternative Medicine by O'Mathúna and Larimore, originally published in 2001, was updated and expanded in 2007. More recently in June 2009, an ePub edition was released. The Christian Handbook lives up to its catchy cover of guiding patients and healthcare professionals in "the options, the claims, the evidence, how to choose wisely" (front cover).
With support from the Christian Medical and Dental Association, the authors Dónal O'Mathúna, PhD, a bioethicist and pharmacist, and Walter Larimore, MD, a family physician, bring their expertise to respond to the lack of clear resources for patients and healthcare professionals in exploring alternative/complementary therapies. O'Mathúna and Larimore evaluated hundreds of alternative/complementary therapies and remedies from two perspectives: 1) scientific research for evidence supporting the therapy as effective, possibly helpful, or without merit; and 2) an orthodox Judeo-Christian worldview through Scripture (p. 14).
Part 1, "Evaluating Alternative Medicine," provides an overview of alternative medicine and the growing interest among Christians. The chapter "Faith Based Healing" differentiates what the Bible does and does not say about health. A chapter titled "Gurus, Fraud, Quackery or Wisdom" guides the reader in discerning possible fraudulent therapies using 25 warning signs. There are also chapters on "Health Lifestyle" and "Alternative Medicine and Children."
Part 2 presents the scientific and spiritual evaluation of over 30 therapies including acupressure, prayer, and yoga, and includes an extensive section on diets and dieting. New to this edition include spiritual implications ratings for therapies related to non-Christian healing rituals and traditions. Part 3 includes an evaluation of a wide range of herbal remedies, vitamins, and dietary supplements. Each therapy or remedy evaluated includes the origin of its use (What It Is) and how it works (Claims), scientific information (Study Findings), which are scaled as positive or negative to indicate the strength of the evidence, as well as the possible or actual harmful effects (Cautions), and concludes with overall recommendations (Recommendations).
The authors don't label alternative medicine as good or bad. They point out the proven benefits and unproven claims, while divulging spiritual concerns where appropriate (p. 21). This tool is a must have resource for all Christians, especial healthcare practitioners who guide patients in therapy choices. The low ePub price is reason enough to have this valuable resource.—Carrie M. Dameron, MSN, RNBC, Associate Professor of Nursing at Ohlone College, Fremont, CA, and an on-call medical/surgical staff nurse.
A Memoir of Birth, Joy, and Hard Times
by Jennifer Worth
340 pp., Hudson, NY: Penguin, 2012, $16.00, paperback.
Review: Nurses know the work they do is brimming with the drama of life, but literature is surprisingly lacking in stories that reflect the essence of our fascinating world. Call the Midwife (originally The Midwife, 2009), recently popularized in a British Broadcasting Company series on public television, captures the drama of real-world nursing with stories of nursing and midwifery in the 1950s during post-World War II in London's East End. The nurses were devoted to caring for their patients at a time when antibiotics were rare, maternal mortality was high, and little medical interest was paid to maternal–child health. Worth trained as a nurse at the Royal Berkshire Hospital in Reading and then moved to London to train as a midwife. The book is, in part, her memoir of the work in London.
The compelling and dramatic stories of life and death observed by Worth and her young nurse colleagues are interspersed with stories about the endearing and influential Anglican nuns devoted to nursing and midwifery with whom Worth and the other young nurses live. Worth, raised a "nominal Methodist," was perplexed to consider any connection between faith and being a nurse until Sister Julienne gently shares that "Jesus Christ is our strength and our guidance here" (p. 28). Worth comes to realize that Sister Julienne exerts a strong yet subtle influence on her, which was "way out of proportion to her words or her appearance. She was not imposing or commanding, nor arresting in any way...but something radiated from her and, ponder as I might, I could not understand it. It did not occur to me at the time that her radiance had a spiritual dimension, owing nothing to the values of the temporal world" (p. 28).
In this memoir, Worth reflects on her patients and her professional heritage with compassion, wisdom, and spiritual insight. She loves her patients, the nuns, and their selfless work and comes to the surprising understanding that "perhaps ... could it be the love of God?" (p. 313) in them that she is witnessing? Worth discovers that nurses (and others) cannot love ignorant and challenging people living in filth and squalor and lice- and rat-infested areas except by loving "God, and through His grace come to love His people" (p. 319). It is through the quiet, gentle words, and works of the nuns that Worth realizes what she had spent years trying to understand could be found in the simple phrase, "Go with God." The story ends as her faith begins: "That evening, (she) started to read the Gospels" (p. 319).
Call the Midwife is the first of a trilogy by Worth about her work as a nurse in the East End. All three books (Shadows of the Workhouse, Farewell to the East End) are a delightful read as Worth brings to life the experience of real-world nursing.—Susan Primm Lehmann, MSN, RN, Clinical Assistant Professor, University of Iowa College of Nursing, Iowa City, IA.
© 2013 by InterVarsity Christian Fellowship
Journal of Christian Nursing30(4):253-255, October/December 2013.


All their lives, Finn and Nate have been inseparable, sharing everything, and when a childhood accident left Finn broken, Nate stood by his side as all his other friends left. After all their years together, there's one secret Finn still hasn't revealed: he has been in love with Nate since they were eight years old. Hiding his feelings for twenty-one years—terrified of what might happen if Nate ever found out—has been difficult, but losing his best friend would be worse than living with a bad case of unrequited love. Unfortunately for Finn, Nate doesn't make it easy.
Grab this one, you will fall in love with the book and the boys in it! Thanks Cate, for giving us two men that will crawl into our hearts and stay there!
It's hard to describe how much I appreciated this story. It's fun and lighthearted, yet it has a mix of angst and heartbreak interspersed.
I loved this book so much and will reread it again and again. It will go on my list of comfort reads. Thank you, Ms Ashwood, for this treasure of a story. I cannot recommend it highly enough.


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Wildfires in Siberia
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As in the western United States and northern Canada, Russia is ablaze. On July 11, 2012, more than 25,000 hectares (97 square miles) of forests were burning, according to the Russian Federal Forestry Agency. Most of the fires—uncontrolled wildfires in boreal forests—were in central and eastern Siberia.
Fires had engulfed 10,500 hectares in Krasnoyarsk, 6,300 hectares in Tomsk, and 2,400 hectares in Yakutia. Yugra, Sakhalin, and Khabarovsk also had large fires burning.
The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA's Aqua satellite captured this image of fires burning in Yakutia on July 10, 2012. Thick smoke billowed from numerous wildfires near the Aldan River and blew to the north. Red outlines indicate hot spots where MODIS detected unusually warm surface temperatures associated with fires.
Smoke from large wildfires in Siberia can be lofted high enough into the atmosphere for winds to push the plumes across the Pacific Ocean to North America. On July 8 and 9, 2012, smoke from Siberia arrived in British Columbia, Canada, and caused ground-level ozone to reach record high levels.
On July 6, NASA Goddard Space Flight scientist Jon Ranson—who is in the midst of a field expedition in Siberia—observed the fires firsthand during a flight between St. Petersburg and Krasnoyarsk. He described the scene on the blog he's using to chronicle the expedition:
"We left St. Petersburg near sunset, with the sun low on the horizon. Smoky sunsets create very red skies, and the colors were pretty spectacular. It reminded me of the sunsets I saw just a few weeks ago when I visited Greely, Colorado. I was close to the High Park fire, and the sky was an amazing, blazing orange at sunset. That was only one fire, however. Dozens, or maybe hundreds, colored the sky on July 6 as we passed above the smoke. We flew over a huge, curving river of thick smoke. It truly looked like a river flowing, I think, generally north to south."
Ranson's team, which conducted field research in Siberia in 2010 as well, is researching whether global warming is affecting the fire return interval (the amount of time that elapses between fires in a given area) at a field site in northern Siberia. Scientists expect that the return interval will decrease in the future and that wildfires in Siberia will become more frequent. Ranson touched on the topic in the same blog post:
"In 2010, we came to Siberia by way of Beijing because the forests around Moscow were burning. That year, we worked an area north of Tomsk, near the Ob River. We didn't have fire there that year, but we did see some fairly fresh burn scars. Now, two years later, our flights are again delayed by widespread blazes in taiga. And our 2012 study area appears to be on fire—so soon. It is sobering to realize that in two years so close together that the taiga has suffered such extreme fires. Is this the result of climate change? Or a freak occurrence? What I know, for sure, is that these fires appear to be consuming a lot of forest. They must be releasing a whole lot of carbon into the atmosphere, and what happens here does affect the rest of our world."
Ranson, J. (2012, July). Siberia 2012: A Slow and Smoky Arrival. Notes from the Field.
NASA Earth Observatory. (2012, June 19). Siberia Burns.
NASA. (2012, June 19). Satellite See Smoke from Siberian Fires Reach the U.S. Coast. Accessed July 11, 2012.
NASA image courtesy Jeff Schmaltz, LANCE MODIS Rapid Response. Caption by Adam Voiland.
Thick smoke billowed from fires in Yakutia on July 10, 2012.
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Calgary Herald. (2012, July 11). Smoke from Siberian fires Raises Ozone Levels in B.C. to Record Levels. Accessed July 11, 2012.
Interfax. (2012, July 11). Over 25,000 Hectares Engulfed by Wildfires in Urals and Siberia. Accessed July 11, 2012.
Night View of Fires in Siberia
The Suomi NPP satellite carries an instrument so sensitive to low light levels that it can detect wildfires in the middle of the night.
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Fires in Siberia
More than 30 taiga wildfires burned in the Far East of Russia on July 10, 2012.
Visitors to Russia's Lake Baikal have been met with smoke and ash from wildfires raging in the area.
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Russian authorities grapple with fires near Novisibirsk.


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Day 1 Depart USA
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Day 2 Arrive in Glasgow or Edinburgh, Britannia
Welcome to Scotland! Upon arrival at the airport you will be met by your guide and transferred to Edinburgh. See the Royal Yacht HMY Britannia, now decommissioned and permanently berthed at the port in Edinburgh. Dinner and overnight in the Edinburgh area.
Day 3 Edinburgh Castle, St. Giles, Princes Street
This morning you will begin to explore the city that has played an important part in our Christian heritage. Tour Edinburgh Castle, where James VI, who authorized the King James Bible, was born. Visit St. Giles Cathedral, the High Kirk (church) of Edinburgh, where John Knox was minister following the Scottish Reformation. Continue down Princes Street to the Sir Walter Scott Monument. Dinner and overnight in the Edinburgh area.
Day 4 John Knox House, Holyrood
Visit the historic John Knox House, where the Reformer resided while in Scotland. Descend the Royal Mile to the Palace of Holyrood, where John Knox confronted Mary, Queen of the Scots. Dinner and overnight in the Edinburgh area.
Day 5 Dunfermline Abbey, St. Andrews Church & Castle
Cross the Firth of Forth to Fife. Stop at Dunfermline Abbey, where St. Margaret and Robert the Bruce are buried. Continue past picturesque fishing villages to St. Andrew's, the ancient ecclesiastical capital of Scotland. Visit the ruins of St. Andrew's Cathedral and the nearby castle with its notorious "Bottle Dungeon". Here John Knox and other reformers were held prisoner. Take a look at the "Old Course" at St. Andrew's, renowned as the home of golf! Continue to Perth for dinner and overnight.
Day 6 Church at Perth, Cruise on Loch Lomond
This morning you will visit St. John's Church in Perth, where John Knox preached in May of 1559 and fanned the flames of the Reformation. Travel the high road to Loch Lomond, where you will take a boat cruise on the waters made famous by the song, "The Bonny Banks of Loch Lomond". Continue to Oban for dinner and overnight.
Day 7 Isle of Iona
Two ferry rides and a drive across the Isle of Mull will bring you to the quiet and peaceful Isle of Iona, the resting place of Scottish kings. The day is yours to explore the rich spiritual heritage of Iona. Visit the Abbey and Shrine, thought to be places of spiritual power. Pilgrims continue to Iona, Scotland's first monastic community, for rest and reflection. Return to Oban for dinner and overnight.
Day 8 Inveraray Castle, Glasgow Cathedral
Take a delightful ride to Inveraray Castle, home of the 12th Duke of Argyll and seat of the Clan Campbell. Continue on to Glasgow, the commercial capital of Scotland which is filled with Victorian architecture. You'll visit Glasgow Cathedral, dedicated to St. Mungo. This cathedral is the only one to have escaped the violence of the Reformation era, and contains a memorial to later martyrs of the Reformation. Continue to your Glasgow hotel for dinner and overnight.
Day 9 Return to USA
Say farewell to this rich land of kilts & castles, religion and reformation. Return to the US with an enriched faith and memories to last a lifetime!
Tour: ET19 Code: A
8AM - 5PM ET (M-F)
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